I just started re-reading Rogue Planet. I don't think that I've read it in the past ten years, so I don't remember much.

Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 7:53 pm

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Bianca ChristinePadawan

Joined: 02 Jul 2013Posts: 94Location: Metro Detroit

I've moved on to Apocalypse..._________________Husband isn't a Star Wars fan...but he bought me the Saga on Blu-ray so all is good in the Galaxy.

Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2013 12:19 pm

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AdmiralStevenPadawan

Joined: 20 Sep 2012Posts: 64Location: Cape Cod, MA

I'm about 100 pages into Han Solo at Stars' End.

Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2013 9:20 am

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Bianca ChristinePadawan

Joined: 02 Jul 2013Posts: 94Location: Metro Detroit

I'll be getting into X-Wing: Mercy Kill during lunch today..._________________Husband isn't a Star Wars fan...but he bought me the Saga on Blu-ray so all is good in the Galaxy.

Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2013 9:55 am

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Crash OverrideMaster

Joined: 22 Dec 2010Posts: 1962

I finished Rogue Planet and I'll post a review and thoughts in the book club thread later. Vector Prime is next.

Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2013 9:25 pm

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Ewok_SlayerPadawan

Joined: 19 Jul 2013Posts: 2

This week I read Red Harvest and Death Troopers. I really liked them, but I am a fan of horror novels. They are definitely different from other Star Wars novels.

I just bought 501st: An Imperial Commando Novel. I liked the Republic Commando novels so I hope this one won't disappoint.

Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2013 3:34 pm

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ReepicheepMaster

Joined: 05 Feb 2008Posts: 6957Location: Sailing into the unknown

I'm about 1/3rd through Crucible. I'm actually really enjoying it so far. _________________
Where sky and water meet,
Where the waves grow sweet,
Doubt not, Reepicheep,
To find all you seek,
There is the utter east.

Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2013 5:25 am

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ProudfootKnight

Joined: 14 Sep 2012Posts: 259Location: London

I've been reading through the Omnibuses starting with Rise of The Sith. I'm up to Clone Wars volume 2. I have been pleasantly surprised with the overarching storylines and themes explored through the books, particularly Aurra Sing and Quinlan Vos' stories.

Having already read Jedi in Darkness, it is good to see Vos' character fleshed out and given even more complexity. Also unless he undergoes a radical personality transplant in the books I still have to read, I have no idea what the Clone Wars series was thinking with their characterisation of Quinlan!_________________On a clear day they'll see us from the beaches.

Love the earliest EU literature. That series by Brian Daley were the first books I read, along with Heir to the Empire, and they remain to be some of my favorites. Just short, sweet fun without all of the extreme over-arching "end-of-the-world" plotlines that go over 8 books.

I kind of wish they'd write more books like that.

Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2013 11:01 pm

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Crash OverrideMaster

Joined: 22 Dec 2010Posts: 1962

Baloo wrote:

AdmiralSteven wrote:

I'm about 100 pages into Han Solo at Stars' End.

Love the earliest EU literature. That series by Brian Daley were the first books I read, along with Heir to the Empire, and they remain to be some of my favorites. Just short, sweet fun without all of the extreme over-arching "end-of-the-world" plotlines that go over 8 books.

I kind of wish they'd write more books like that.

Agreed. Stover was trying for that feel with Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor. It didn't have an "end of the world" galactic peril plotline, but it put the Big 3 plus Lando, Chewbacca, and the droids in mortal peril. I think he largely succeeded.

However, one major difference is that Daley's early novels weren't permitted to have Jedi or the Empire, so they only starred Han Solo and Chewbacca and the Corporate Sector was created to replace the Empire. It lends it a very "big galaxy" feel, especially when read with L. Neil Smith's Lando novels which likewise don't feature the Galactic Empire and take place in their own corner of the galaxy.

Jim Luceno was friends with Brian Daley so his novels are very referential of the early Han Solo novels, and I think he does a good job of capturing the same feel to the novels as Daley. Millennium Falcon is really a homage to those early novels, for instance, but even his Agents of Chaos duology in the New Jedi Order series is reminiscent of them at times.

Finished Emma. Quite enjoyable, though wasn't particularly happy with the resolution of the Harriet storyline. I think I'm going to go away from reading the collection for a little while. Change things to reading one collection book, then one physical book and so on. I don't think staring at the DS screen for prolonged periods agrees with me.

Now reading Crucible. I had actually hoped to read William Shakespeare's Star Wars (I caved), but it hasn't turned up yet._________________I am a Star Wars fan. That doesn't mean that I hate or love Jar Jar. That doesn't mean I hate or love Lucas, or agree or disagree 100% with him. That doesn't mean I prefer the PT over the OT, or vice versa. That doesn't mean I hate the EU, or even love all of it (or even read all of it). These are not prerequisites. Being a man is not a prerequisite. Being a geek is not a prerequisite. The only prerequisite is that I love something about Star Wars. I am a Star Wars fan.

Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 6:48 am

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SunlessPadawan

Joined: 15 May 2013Posts: 49Location: Melbourne.

Finally got through Children of the Jedi. Sigh.

Taking a Callista break and reading Starfighters in Adumar. Never read this before and so far so soooo sooooooooo good.

Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 1:59 pm

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AdmiralStevenPadawan

Joined: 20 Sep 2012Posts: 64Location: Cape Cod, MA

Crash Override wrote:

I finished Rogue Planet and I'll post a review and thoughts in the book club thread later. Vector Prime is next.

I couldn't get into that book, so I put that book down. Can't wait to read your review of it.

Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 2:10 pm

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AdmiralStevenPadawan

Joined: 20 Sep 2012Posts: 64Location: Cape Cod, MA

Baloo wrote:

AdmiralSteven wrote:

I'm about 100 pages into Han Solo at Stars' End.

Love the earliest EU literature. That series by Brian Daley were the first books I read, along with Heir to the Empire, and they remain to be some of my favorites. Just short, sweet fun without all of the extreme over-arching "end-of-the-world" plotlines that go over 8 books.

I kind of wish they'd write more books like that.

I eat these kind of books up. A book that doesn't have that, as you put it, "end-of-world" type plot line. Just a book about someone/people who are just trying to make their way through the galaxy. And I couldn't agree more, I wish they write more books like this.

Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 3:20 pm

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WerehunterKnight

Joined: 08 Apr 2011Posts: 362

Sunless wrote:

Finally got through Children of the Jedi. Sigh.

Taking a Callista break and reading Starfighters in Adumar. Never read this before and so far so soooo sooooooooo good.

I would love to read that book again for the first time. I love the book, but I've found that humorous books like that lose a little upon multiple readings. Just like a good mystery novel.